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Mimoza Hafizi

Biography

Mimoza Hafizi

Mimoza Hafizi is professor of Astrophysics at Tirana University and associated member of Academy of Sciences, Albania. She dedicated her research to Gamma Ray Bursts and Discovery of Exoplanets by the Gravitational Microlensing Method. She is also very active in popular science communications, especially with young people.

Mimoza Hafizi

Books by Mimoza Hafizi

by Mimoza Hafizi - Fiction

Proxima b is a planet discovered in 2016. It revolves around our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Rose Point is an artistic name, given to the planet in this scientific novel. The narrative grows through real and imaginary events, episodes and announcements through dialogues, conversations, discussions, meditations and thoughts, occurring in some scientific centers of space research: an observatory, ESO Garching, ESO La Silla, Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, NASA Ames, Boulder University, Johns Hopkins University, SETI, ESA. The characters are researchers --- invented persons and names, but with temperaments and personalities similar to several people whom author Mimoza Hafizi met in her scientific life. They share the same mission: the discovery of new planets outside the solar system.